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Newcastle United vs Arsenal preview & January transfer frustration
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04/02/2025
Newcastle United writer Jordan Cronin previews Newcastle United vs Arsenal in the Carabao Cup semi-final, and reflects on the January transfer window.
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How's your nerves, Newcastle United fans? Not long to go now until that Carabao Cup
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semi-final second leg tie against Arsenal. It's funny how these things work. A month
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ago, Newcastle won 2-0 at the Emirates. I think if you had played the second leg a week
00:18
after that first leg win, there'd be a lot of confidence in the air. But four weeks is
00:24
a long time in football, and things have slightly changed since then. The momentum being, one,
00:30
of course, Newcastle losing back-to-back home games at St James' Park. Arsenal coming into
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the game on the back of a 5-1 victory over Manchester City on Sunday, so their confidence
00:43
is flying. Newcastle squad has taken a little bit of a hit since then, Lloyd Kelly and Miga
00:49
Arnone leaving the football club. Two players that came on in the second leg as substitutes.
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There's doubt over Joe Linton's involvement tomorrow. He has a knee injury, which Eddie
01:02
Howe confirmed after Saturday's game 2-1 defeat against Fulham. He was pitched in a leg brace
01:10
or a knee brace 24 hours after. He's now out that brace, but there's a doubt. Eddie Howe
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said he's pre-match press conference this morning. Newcastle squad has taken a little
01:23
bit of a hit, while Arsenal have got injuries themselves, to be fair. Pacayo was still sidelined.
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Gabriel Jesus as well, who picked up a knee injury, played in the first leg. There's been
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a bit of change since that first leg tie, shall we say, but it's finally here. Newcastle
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in a great position, 2-0 up, 90 minutes away from Wembley. If you're asking me now, I do
01:56
think they'll do the job, but going back onto where I started this video about Eddie Howe's
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pre-match press conference this morning, I spoke about Joe Linton there, I even mentioned
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Lloyd Kelly. He was a big subject of the pre-match press conference this morning, on
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Tuesday morning, when Eddie Howe spoke to the media on Friday ahead of that Fulham game,
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he said he didn't expect any more outgoings. Lloyd Kelly in the squad against Fulham, comes
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on as a late substitute against Fulham, and then the hours after that game, news starts
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to build from Italy that the Eventists are serious about Lloyd Kelly, because the interest
02:35
has been there all month, but they finally made their interest concrete on Saturday night.
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And yeah, the deal progressed quickly from there really, Lloyd Kelly flew to Turin on
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Sunday, underwent his medical, and then by Monday tea time, a few hours before the English
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transfer window closed at 11 o'clock, Lloyd Kelly was announced as the Eventists player.
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I think it's really good business by Newcastle United, player on big wages after signing
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as a free agent from Bournemouth in the summer, a £20 million obligation, as I say, big wages,
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a player that is behind a lot of people in the pecking order. You look at centre-back
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Newcastle, you've got Sven Bottman, Dan Byrne, Fabian Scheer, Jamala Selzer is coming back
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from injury next month. Left-back, you've got Lewis Hall who's thriving, Matt Target
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as well, who came back from a lengthy injury himself, or lengthy injuries himself. So Lloyd
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Kelly, big wages, struggling to find a way into Eddie Howe's first team. I think it was
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a great bit of business, and I think they're no-brainer in many ways. The only disappointment
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from this transfer window is Newcastle haven't signed anyone. And I'll say from both sides,
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I think the word, we're getting back and Eddie Howe didn't confirm this in his press conference
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this morning, nor do I expect him to, because you'd be essentially telling clubs you're
03:56
trying to buy players off that you've got a lot of money, but buying Newcastle and doing
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what they've done this month by recouping what will be £30 million, £10 million,
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£20 million for Lloyd Kelly in the summer when his initial loan spell is complete, it
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should put Newcastle in a stronger position financially to compete in the summer and really
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bolster that start level which needs it, because they've gone three transfer windows now in
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a row without signing a major signing. And I do think in the short term that is a risky
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approach and a gamble in many ways, because this season Newcastle, as we were talking
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about the Arsenal game, they're 90 minutes away from a Cowboy Cup final, and they've
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also pulled themselves back into the Champions League qualification race. And I do think
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there might be points between now and the end of the season where you look at the squad
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and look at the start level, and things may look steel, and that will be a legitimate
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reason if Newcastle are in a period where they are struggling, but this is what PSR
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does to clubs, this is what's done to Newcastle in the summer. And what you don't want is
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a situation like June 30th last year when Newcastle were at risk of breaching PSR rules,
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they were forced to sell Elliot Anderson, they were forced to sell Jakuba Minter. That's
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the thing Newcastle want, is being in a position again where they're going to have to sell,
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they would be forced to sell St Alexander Isak, or Bruno Kimaraes, or Sandro Tonali,
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or Anthony Gordon. Look, I think maybe a short term argument would be, well, if Newcastle
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don't get European football, or Champions League football this season, those names might
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want to leave, and that might be true, but by being in a strong position under PSR, Newcastle
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can demand what they want for those players. So Alexander Isak may say, well, I want to
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leave. Well, you can leave, but someone's going to have to pay £150 million for you,
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whereas if they were at risk of breaching PSR, you have someone like Arsenal come in
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and go, well, I know you're at risk of breaching PSR, we're going to give you £80 million,
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and Newcastle at that point are back to them at the corner, so at least by doing what they've
06:07
done, they're in charge of their own destiny in many ways, and that's the way it should
06:13
be. So they went big in the opening two years under the new ownership, with big transfer
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fees on your Isaks, on your Brunos, on your Gordons, Tonalis, Botmans, etc, and they sadly
06:27
paid the price for that over the last three transfers by not signing the major signing,
06:31
but hopefully this summer is the end of that cycle and they can really kick on.
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